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Author: Rukhaya MK
Published Date: 12/01/2025
ISBN: 978-81-976304-0-8
Paperback: Paperback
Pages: 150
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Fine honour, and surely you merited it.

— Keki N Daruwalla, praising the poet receiving the WE (Women-Empowered India) Gifted Poet Award

‘I am always/ going home/ and still waiting for the day / when I will be/ coming home.’ These lines in a way sum up Rukhaya’s dilemma as a poet and a human being. These poems return again and again to some basic concerns: displacement, exile, homelessness, the tyranny of the majority and the othering of the minority, authoritarian oppression, the anxieties of the post-truth age, the torment of being a woman in a violent patriarchal society. They bear the scars of an unhappy existence on a planet of pain and make no compromises with that agonising, if transient, existence. — K Satchidanandan

I am sure a new generation of readers will respond to Rukhaya’s intimate voice with great enthusiasm. There is much here that announces the arrival of a very talented writer who is committed to poetry. Over to the readers, for the pleasures of poetry. — EV Ramakrishnan

To witness the spectacle of how she survives ‘the spaces between words,’ you must read Rukhaya’s poems with a burning patience. But let me caution you about the catheretic effects of her poems; it’s not poetry; it’s her hijab, ‘window to the world’! — Ashwani Kumar

Dr Rukhaya Mohammad Kunhi is an award-winning poet and critic who has been published in national and international anthologies and journals. She has won accolades in writing including ones from the New Book Society of India, Storymirror.com, and the Forgotten Writers’ Foundation, Egypt.

She is the recipient of the Reuel International Prize for Criticism 2016, for the most promising upcoming critic. In 2016, she was listed as IWI’s Incredible Women Writers of India. She was catalogued among the best late Indian 20th century essayists like Arun Shourie, MJ Akbar, Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy, Amit Chaudhuri, AK Ramanujan, among others, by the Humanities Institute, USA.

In 2020, she was awarded the Women-Empowered India (WE) Gifted Poet Award: Powerful Emergent Voice. In 2021, she was awarded the Reuel International Prize for Poetry. In 2022, Rukhaya was listed among 100 Inspiring Muslim Women of Kerala, as part of Rising Beyond The Ceiling, a global initiative.

She has her own website www.rukhaya.com where she provides resources for students and scholars all over the world.